Harry watched the sun setting in the sky, knowing that he would need to return to Hogwarts tomorrow. Watching the sun set was always calming for Harry, who had a lot of problems lately. While being 'accepted' as a fellow huntsmen in training, Harry and his team still faced difficult challenges, in the form of the newly transferred team SSSN from Mistral's Haven Academy.
Sun and Neptune where the worst, ever, of all times. While they both had a quite 'stable' relationship with Blake (Sun) and Weiss (Neptune) from team RWBY, they flirted with every girl that they could see, driving both Blake and Weiss up the wall. The worst part was that it was mostly Ginny or Dora or Hermione who they would target, just to tease Harry to come to their rescue. Harry had talked to both girlfriends of the two boys, and although the promised to reign them in, Sun and Neptune needed to have a much shorter leash.
Harry also had to undergo his godfather's teasing, making Harry's already tough life even tougher. Harry did love Sirius, he really did. But sometimes, Sirius would overstep his boundaries, and Harry would silence Sirius, only to be reprimanded by Remus Lupin, who had taken residence at Beacon Academy, as a junior professor. Remus was busy studying how to use his skills in teaching defense against the dark arts from Hogwarts, to teaching students to better fight the Grimm.
Knowing that most students didn't have any magic, Remus learned under Goodwitch, and quickly became quite proficient in combat related usage of Dust.
"Don't listen to them, Harry." A gentle voice said as Harry felt a person gently touching his neck.
"I know, but it's so hard to do. They all know that I care for them, and it's driving me up the wall. If it isn't Sirius telling me how proud he is of me for reaching 'forth base', or Remus telling me off for defending Ginny, Dora or Hermione from Sun and Neptune. I knew that I had a different childhood that most at Beacon, but I never talked about it, because it wasn't their business."
Harry took a deep breath and let out the air in his lungs. "How do you do it, Angel?" Harry asked as he looked up at the face of Angel Star, member of Team RAVN. Angel had a gentle smile, bright blue eyes, a slightly flat nose and blond hair that she shared with her cousin, and leader of the team, Ray Star.
"It gets easier with time, little Harry" Angel said as she ruffled Harry's already messy hair. Harry moved her hand away from his hair and looked back as the last few sun-rays seemed to vanish as the sun sank below the horizon.
"Yeah, I guess you're right" Harry said as he stood up from the bench he was sitting on and walked back to his dorm.
"See you next time, Angel." Harry said as he waved his arm at the blond haired girl. "Bye Harry." Angel said as she waved back, Seeing Harry turning the corner, she whispered some words, before she turned to go to her own dorm. "See you in the short future."
Harry Ozpin moved with purpose to his dorm, wishing for one night of uninterrupted sleep, before he went to Hogwarts. Even since Harry had slept with Ginny, Dora, Hermione and Yang from team RWBY to cure Hermione's heat, he had been sleeping bad. His father had asked the Head Nurse, Jasmine Rosso to look for any potential cause, but couldn't find anything that might cause Harry's restless nights. In the end, Harry had to take sleeping pills for a good night rest, but they didn't do much either.
So now all Harry could do, was trying to tire himself out, before he crashed in bed. Opening the door to his dorm, his ears were overwhelmed with voices and sounds that didn't belonged in the dorm.
"ENOUGH" Harry shouted, his voice reaching out to every corner of the room, and every person who was in there. It seemed that Team JNPR and RWBY were there as well, besides the rest of team GOTH.
"What are you doing here?" Harry asked as he looked at teams RWBY and JNPR. "We were hoping to say goodbye and wishing to wish you well at Hogwarts tomorrow" Said Pyrrha Arc-Nikos, as she looked at the young black haired child with bangs under his eyes. Pyrrha had married four weeks ago with Jaune Arc, and had arrived two weeks after Team GOTH helped Hermione lose her heat.
"Well, that's nice of you, but it could have been a bit earlier, instead of at the end of the day, when the sun has just set." Said Harry as he slowly made his way to his bed.
"See, I told you he wouldn't appreciate it" Said Weiss Schnee. Weiss had grown from a young seventeen year old spoiled child to a valued member of Team RWBY. Her white hair was still in a off-center ponytail, but now she had a few strands of hair on her other side, curled and slender, like an icicle that hang from a rooftop.
"Oh I don't mind, Weiss." Harry said as he sat down on his bed. "What bothers me is that I can't sleep right, thus making me cranky and irritate for the whole day."
"Maybe you need another go with one of the ladies" Yang teased as she sensually walked towards Harry.
"Maybe I can help you, with your problem?" Yang said, teasing Harry hard.
"Hey, last time when you were with Harry, I had to be with Weiss and Pyrrha, I want some Harry time to" Ruby Rose, team-leader of team RWBY said.
"Yeah. We can all BOOB all the same time" Nora said, causing Ren, Pyrrha and Jaune to face-slap themselves.
"Nora. What did we discuss about that?" Ren asked his hyper active friend. "Not to?" Nora guessed. "You guessed it" Ren said as he grabbed Nora's hand.
"Have fun at Hogwarts guys" Ren said as he pulled Nora away with him, back to their own room.
An awkward silence hung in the room, and Harry shook his head slowly. "Thanks guys for thinking about us. I really appreciate it, but if you don't mind, I'd like to go to bed now." Harry said. Yang smiled as she bend over and looked at Harry's face, driving her breasts closer to Harry's face.
"Are you sure that you don't want a second go at these?" She asked, as she gently held her breasts and moved from side to side. "Yang." Ruby's voice came from behind. Yang looked up and saw her sister pointing out the door. "Our dorm. Now"
"Ah, you're no fun" Yang pouted as she was dragged away from team GOTH's dorm room by Blake, who bid the four teenagers a goodnight. Weiss and Ruby did the same thing, before they closed the door. "Night Girls" Harry said as he fell asleep on his bed, still dressed in his usual clothes.
Ginny, Dora and Hermione all looked at Harry before they nodded and moved to their own bed. Crawling under the blankets, the girls fell asleep.
Harry slept through the entire night, and was woken up by Ginny, who threw a bucket of water over him, causing Harry to wake up, swearing like a sailor. Finally awake, Harry all to soon waved goodbye to Beacon and activated the port-key that would bring them to the wizarding side of Kings Cross Station. Letting go of the port-key, Harry and his friends entered a compartment, and sat down. They were half a hour early, but it gave them a good excuse to change out of their clothes now, and into their Hogwarts uniforms. After the events that surrounded Hermione's heat problem, the four of them had become less shy about their nakedness, causing them to change clothes around each other. Harry shrugged as Ginny pointed out that he would be with three nearly naked girls, and that he normally would be outside, while they changed. Harry smiled back, and told Ginny that "If you don't like me changing with you, then maybe you need to wait until we are done."
Ginny had laughed about that, and continued putting her Hogwarts uniform on. Finally, they were in they uniforms, and sat down on the benches in their compartment.
"So, what did your mother say about the Quidditch World Cup, Dora?" Harry asked as he looked at his color changing friend. Dora's parents had been at the finale of the Quidditch World Cup, while she stayed with Ginny and Harry at Beacon.
"Well. They said that Krum caught the snitch, but Ireland won the match. But after the match, several masked lunatics started to throw curses at the camping site, causing seventeen injured people needing medical treatment from healers from St. Mungo's."
Dora moved closer, and motioned them to come closer to. "They say that it were death eaters. Followers of Voldemort" Dora whispered, hoping nobody could overhear them. None of them shivered anymore when they heard the name 'Voldemort'.
"I heard similar things" Ginny said as she looked around. "According to Molly, there have been strange things happening near some country called Albania. Rumors have been spreading, that snakes have been avoiding a forest, known to house 'evil spirits'."
Harry raised an eyebrow. "Evil spirits? That does sound like how Voldemort was at the end of my first year. Less than human, more than ghost." Ginny nodded.
"I have better." Said Hermione. "According to Professor McGonagall, who came to visit Vale, she heard reports of a rat turning into a man. Said rat has been living around Hogwarts for more than ten years."
"But a rat doesn't get any older than two years." said Ginny as she looked at Hermione. " A very lucky rat can live up to three. It's the common brown rat that can live up to six years, and that is if it's very lucky."
"How did you know that?" Harry asked, impressed with Ginny's knowledge. "Charlie told me, he's now in Romania, studying dragons." Ginny said as she puffed up her chest, proud that she had a relative that worked with dangerous animals.
"That's nice" Harry said as he took out a photo of a deer with a doe, a large wolf, a big black dog and a small rat. "Sirius gave me this. He told me that he and some friends of him, including James Potter, became illegal animagus to help their friend Remus Lupin, who was a werewolf. Look at this." Harry said as he touched the photo with his fingers.
"James Potter, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew" Harry said as he pointed to each of the animals. "The last one, Peter Pettigrew. Combining what we know, that both Sirius and Remus are at Beacon and that James and Lily are dead.. That leaves the rat that we haven't met before. And a rat can't live past six years, so a rat that is double the maximum age, is kind of fishy, right?" Harry asked. The others nodded, as some early students started to beard the train.
"And here's the best part." Harry said as he moved closer. "Sirius told me that Peter Pettigrew was the secret keeper of the Fidelius charm at my parents cottage. Sirius spoke with him, right before Pettigrew 'exploded'. But here's the strange thing. All that was left of Pettigrew was a finger."
" What?" The three girls asked at the same time.
"But when someone is 'being exploded' then you'll find body-parts all over, not a single finger" Hermione said, as the door opened and a blond girl with large moon-like eyes stood in front of them.
"Excuse me, may I sit here?" She asked, her voice sounding slightly off. Harry gave his team a look that said 'We'll talk about his later', before he turned to the girl who was still standing and waved a hand to a empty spot. "Of course, come in."
Harry watched as the girl with blond hair and moon-like eyes sat down next to the window, where they now could see the Weasley's moving ahead, trying to get on board before the train started to move.
"So, what's your name?" Ginny asked, looking at the eyes of the girl, that were filled with a grey color.
"Oh, I'm Luna Lovegood" Luna said as she shook Ginny's hand, before she moved back into her own magazine, that she was reading upside down.
Ginny looked at Harry, who shrugged and decided to fall back in sleep. It was still a long way to go, and the train did almost eight hours to get from Kings Cross to Hogsmeade station. Then it was another ten minutes with carriages pulled by skeletal horses before they entered Hogwarts itself. "Mind if I get back to sleep?" Harry asked his friends, who all shook their heads and Harry nodded, before falling asleep.
"Welcome to another year at Hogwarts." Dumbledore said with his arms wide open, as if he welcomed all at Hogwarts. Harry sighed again. Every year, Dumbledore would welcome them with the same enthusiasm, like he really must like it that Hogwarts would be filled with students who would learn the magical arts.
It was certainly a different feeling than at Beacon, where Professor Ozpin would give a short speech to the first year students, before he would return to his office. No, Harry had the feeling that Dumbledore really liked the students who came through the gates of Hogwarts. "I'm sorry to say that this year, we'll be unable to organize a Quidditch cup," Many shouts of disagreement were heard, especially at the Gryffindor table, where Fred and George Weasley were protesting hard.
",Because most of the attention of the staff will be tasked with organizing The Triwizard Tournament." The shouts were replaced by many whispers, wondering what the Triwizard Tournament was.
"The Triwizard Tournament is a competition between the three largest magical schools of Europe, competing against each other in three magical tasks. On October the 30th, a delegation of the other schools will be arriving, and they will stay with us for the rest of the year."
Dumbledore then introduced the new defense against the dark arts teacher, Alastor Moody. A heavy build man, who walked with a limp, as Harry saw a metal claw sticking under Moody's robes. Harry looked better at Moody and saw that he had lost half his nose, was under various scars and had an eye-patch, that contained a rotating blue eye.
Walking behind one of the prefects of the year, Harry could feel the eyes of Moody on him, observing him with detail.
Mentally shaking himself, Harry followed the Gryffindors through Hogwarts, and into the common room, after giving Violet (The fat Lady) the new password 'woodlice' for the coming weeks.
Being one of the last to arrive, Harry moved right through the mumbling crowd of Gryffindor tower and into his dorm, where he saw a third year and a first year going through his stuff. "COLIN" Harry shouted, as Colin Creevey, a Harry Potter fan, picked up a red colored Dust crystal. Harry dived forward, to catch the Dust crystal that Colin had accidentally dropped. Catching the crystal, Harry looked at the two, his eyes forcing the two to look down, for being caught. "Do you have any idea what this is?" Harry asked, holding out the crystal to them. "Don't answer, for you don't know." Harry cut them off, before they could answer.
"This is a very unstable, high explosive fire Dust crystal, that needs to he handled with special care. Anyone who hasn't been trained to use Dust correctly, can cause massive damage for his or her surroundings. Not to mention, the danger that you were causing for yourself and those around you."
Harry gently placed the crystal back in it's box, before he closed his trunk. "You two, with me" Harry said as he moved back to the common room.
Both Colin and his younger brother followed Harry back to the common room, where a still sizable group of students was standing. "Jonathan Hayes, a word please" Harry asked, as he looked at the fifth year male prefect of Gryffindor.
"Yes, Harry?" Jonathan asked, as he looked at Harry, with behind Harry two boys who looked a bit to shameful than normal. "What happened?" Jonathan asked, knowing that something was going on.
"These two had opened my trunk, and brought out a fire Dust crystal. When I found them, they dropped the crystal, and if I wasn't fast enough, then there wouldn't be a Gryffindor tower anymore." Said Harry as he looked at the third and first year.
"I assume you want them punished?" Jonathan asked, having seen it several times now.
"Yes, I want them punished." Said Harry as he pulled Hammer from his holster.
"Boys, you did something that you shouldn't have done. I can stop Harry now, but he'll just go over me to McGonagall. It's best if you just accept the punishment that Harry has in store for you."
Both Creevey brothers looked at Harry who was now unloading Hammer and removed a very small amount of fire Dust.
"Jonathan, can you conjure me some water?" Harry asked as he took hold of two glasses that Fred had just conjured. Filling them with water from Jonathan's wand, Harry held out the two glasses to the boys who carefully took them.
"Now pay attention" Said Harry as he let a single crushed fire Dust crystal fragment falling in the water. The moment that the water and the fragment of Dust made contact, it reacted heavily and the water started to boil, causing both Colin and his brother to drop the glasses of water. A whole mess was on the floor as the fire Dust heated water splashed out of the glasses that broke, causing the glass shards to be scattered round them, and the water being soaked up by the carpet
"That was only one very small fragment of fire Dust that heated a glass. Imagine what a thousand, or ten thousands of those could do" Said Harry as he looked at Colin and his brother.
"Listen. I'm not that mad at you for finding that crystal. What I'm angry about is that you opened my trunk. What would you think if I entered your dorm without permission and opened your trunk?" Harry asked. As he looked at the two boys, harry felt a calming hand on his shoulder and looked up at Professor McGonagall.
"Professor" Harry said respectfully. "Mr. Ozpin. When such a thing happens again, please let one of the prefects call me, instead of making a scene." Harry nodded and moved to his dorm, tired of the day and needing some sleep.
"Mr. Creevey and Mr. Creevey. I hope that Mr. Ozpin's little demonstration has made a few points. One, you don't mess with him or his friends. Ms. Goodwitch is much worse. And two, entering a dorm without permission is forbidden. For now, since you have been punished enough, I'll be letting you off the hook." McGonagall waved her wand and the mess from the broken glasses and the water vanished.
"Next time, when I find you have broken a rule at Hogwarts, you can expect detention."
(A/N) Sorry, but I just can't think of anything to write. I never liked Colin, so I made him and his brother do something that's not allowed at Hogwarts.
Next time, we'll visit the selection of the Triwizard Tournament champions.
Will Harry be one of them?